Mijat Lakicevic, a Belgrade-based journalist, writing recently on the independent web portal Pescanik, put forward a provocative proposal. “We should build a monument to the victims of the ...

A soldier stands on guard near a newly opened monument to Sputnik at Russia's Star City cosmonaut training center on Thursday. Mikhail Metzel / AP Oct. 4, 2007, 12:29 PM EDT / Source : The ...

The Soviets called it sputnik, meaning simply “satellite” or “fellow traveler.” But to American space-watchers of 60 years ago, the satellite that launched on Oct. 4, 1957 had many ...